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That's a great article, thanks for sharing. Obviously I cannot dispute any of the facts but I can tell you farmers in NW Ohio are still buying new trucks & tractors. Nobody is in fear of losing their farms to foreclosure...

I'm interested to see your source for that stat. I have a lot of family & friends that are farmers - while prices are down, they aren't THAT far down. People are still making money.

Overall, it was an improvement from the Purdue game but I think even casual fans expected much more from OSU after a bye week, facing a 2 win team at home. Yes they established the run more and did a better job at containing big plays but the defense still looked porous, Nebraska drove the ball pretty much at will in the first half. I know the defense has fought through some injuries but it's still baffling how many issues this team has - talent, preparation, game planning, effort/execution... all seem to be lacking. I'm shocked to see OSU open as a 5.5 point favorite on the road at MSU this coming week. Regardless of how that goes, I don't see them improving enough to beat Michigan this year who seems to be playing better & better each week

wage growth and employment report Jobs smash estimates with gain of 250,000, wage gains pass 3% for first time since recession https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/02/us-created-250000-jobs-in-oct-vs-190000-jobs-expected.html

all the environmental work was done a decade ago when the initial sitework for the development was done

Truck mounted drill rig doing soil borings in the parking lot right now outside Punch Bowl Social... right about the same area where foundations might go for a new building....

I do work all over the area. Beachwood, Independence, Mentor, Akron etc. Cleveland is hands down the worst. I went a few weeks ago to pick up some certificates of occupancy (I'd been calling & asking for them for weeks) and finally drive down & park and the worker behind the counter could not get up from her game of solitaire, I'm dead serious, and says "look in that box" where there was a couple dozen certificates. I could've grabbed the wrong ones, nothing was logged or signed for, etc. What a joke. A summer co-op could create a spreadsheet program that logs in permit applications, tracks the review, determines who's responsible for review & signoff at each stop (planning, engineering, building review, fire, etc). That way anyone can quickly search and see what the last stop is for the application and who's desk it's been on for too long. But it would actually create accountability so forget it.

Seems like the general consensus is that OSU needs to focus on the run game more and adjust the linebacker schemes. Fixing those two things cures a lot of problems. This team is still missing a few pieces from being a national powerhouse but I hope they can find a way to improve and win out the regular season. I'd love to see them dominate NW or whomever emerges from Big Ten West. 11warriors says OSU has been working on running plays and blocking techniques all week, time for it to pay off. Looking forward to seeing that. Paul Finebaum also said on ESPN he's hearing rumors this will be Meyer's last year. Internal strife at OSU, stress from the job, who knows. Surprising to hear I think

linebackers were non existent in the Purdue game. Big runs right up the middle going untouched... pass rush was consistent but Blough was excellent at extending the plays. Sooo many problems with this team. I knew they were overrated but hoped they would continue to improve. Instead they got totally exposed. If they can't make major corrections, I don't see how they beat UM.

Interesting recap but the running game is so frustrating to watch. The box recap from last week's game shows 39 carries for Weber/Dobbins but it seems like they are too late to establish the run with designed run plays... they have run/read options but those seem to get blown up more often than not. When we had Cardale Jones and Zeke Elliot, it was the perfect 1-2 punch. Pound the ball, draw the defense up/slow the pass rush, then passing game is open/hit receivers in man coverage for big plays. Instead it seems like we have fits & starts to get offensive rhythm, fall behind in the down & distance, forced into passing situations, get full blitzed... defense sits on short routes.. Haskins is making great plays in spite of this but it's still tough to watch. Defense is equally frustrating to watch. Secondary seems to be trying too hard to implement schemes and keeps getting caught out of position allowing big plays. Can't underestimate what the loss of Bosa has meant to the defense but it doesn't feel like we have a standout LB or two like we've had in prior years either.... Really need to keep getting better as year progresses and hopefully stay healthy I agree with Urban - this team has not come close to it's potential.

Why such a difference in costs? Lumen project had no sitework. Excavation, foundations, utilities all in place already. Just go vertical atop the garage... Are you confusing Lumen with Beacon? Yes, sorry - Beacon is the one on Euclid atop the garage. Lumen is the one at PHS, right?

Why such a difference in costs? Lumen project had no sitework. Excavation, foundations, utilities all in place already. Just go vertical atop the garage...

That's really sad. I feel bad for the police & staff that are stuck in outdated cramped space. I feel bad for the folks that have been working diligently behind the scenes to pull this together. It seems shocking they can't get this deal done after making it a priority for the last 18 months.... I hope it's just a smoke screen and they can get it back together quickly

Limited locations in the city to accommodate the surface parking needs that the PD has. A parking structure could work for some of the cars but not for all the trailers, trucks, etc. Also, the timeline is critical. County is charging monthly overages as the CPD stays. This 1801 Superior location really made a lot of sense. Bizarre that it seems to be falling apart

They've been talking about that for about 10 yrs. As soon as the plan to punch 73rd through to the Shoreway required a dead end of Fr. Caruso, they started looking for ways to connect the neighborhoods rather than going all the way up to Detroit & back down... possible Fr. Frascati extending to the east now that those old buildings were torn down about 5 years ago

LOL. Awesome. You can't make that stuff up.

I just toured this project earlier this morning. Incredible. What a beauty of a development with adaptive reuse, incredible interior greenspace/outdoor patio areas, walkable, architectural details... kudos to so many who were involved with this project

"Class A" is so loosely defined here in Cleveland. There are truly only 3 buildings - EY Tower, Key Tower and 200 Public Square - that are Class A. EY Tower is pretty much full. Some space available but most is reserved as expansion for main tenants. Can't comment on Key Tower or 200 PS.

so dumb to waste a great site like that on a school that will pay zero property taxes and sit empty half the year. A mixed use site there would have been a slam dunk. Not like there isn't a dozen other vacant sites around detroit shoreway to put that school...

I don't know about all that. He definitely comes across as crazy but I think he's basically saying "hey media, you came & blasted out this story without all the facts and my children have been put through hell because of it".

Is there any connection from 45 Erieview and the underground parking at the Galleria? No unfortunately - I suppose it COULD be done but I haven't seen anything in concept - the Galleria parking is controlled now by Kassouf group with the Tower at Erieview I believe... not sure they would have any motivation to help out a competing building either, even though it makes a lot of sense

Anyone have an update on how the office leasing is going at Pinecrest? I heard a while ago that they were close to 40% on the first building but the actual tenant list was not adding up to that amount....

45 Erieview is totally empty. not a single tenant in the space. Going to be a challenge as there is only a handful of spots under the building, maybe 30? Only other parking is half a block down at corner of Lakeside & 12th...

There was WAY more to those suspensions than just getting free tattoos. Alumni were handing these guys envelopes full of cash. Driving around in new cars on loan from dealerships. Unexplained cushy no-show jobs.

I am really trying to see how this looks bad for the football program as a whole. Zach Smith has been fired. People seem to want to believe that Urban Meyer had a great deal more to do with the whole history of abuse than it can be really proven he did. There are things people say he "should have known" that were either actively sealed by court order or that would have come to him at best thirdhand from unofficial sources. (In the judicial system, we'd call it hearsay within hearsay.) This is not like the Penn State situation in which the criminal conduct was happening in the school facilities. This is about criminal conduct that, allegedly, happened off school grounds, and was kept quiet through--and this is key and would change my opinion on the matter if proven otherwise--intervention of people who are not Urban Meyer and were not acting at his behest or suggestion. None of the above is blaming the victim. None of it is even really doubting the victim. Courtney Smith has not, to my knowledge, suggested that Meyer applied pressure to her to stay quiet with respect to the earlier incident. People seem to want Meyer's head to roll, or possibly even the entire program's, based on--I'm not even sure, exactly. Some mix of failure to investigate and failure to report (or failure to start firing people based on the first sign of outside criminal conduct, maybe), I guess, but I don't know. People are calling out OSU fans for circling the wagons, but as large as OSU fandom is, its anti-fandom is far larger, and I've seen quite a bit of it on this thread already. This has nothing to do with being a football school instead of a major research university (which, of course, those things are not inconsistent and OSU is both). This has to do with actual justice, and I still haven't seen anything that justifies harsher sanctions on Meyer than have already been imposed. In fact, I'm not even really sure that I see anything that justifies the three game suspension. In case it needs repetition and clarification, Zach Smith deserved to be fired and probably deserves more, and may get more. And I'll also add that I am ashamed of Earle Bruce and make no excuses for his conduct in trying to hush the earlier incident, even though I know he intervened partly for his grandson, not the program. But Earle Bruce is now dead and would be 87 even if he were alive; he last coached at OSU before most of the current players were born. But that's obviously not big enough for the OSU anti-fandom. They want Urban. They don't care how tangential his involvement was. The point is not justice or fairness, the point is damaging the OSU brand and program with the highest-profile possible scalp. Go to twitter , there are plenty of buckeye fans blaming her for being a lunatic and a liar Look, I understand fandom...but it’s ok to just be mad at your team and disapprove. Can anyone find one neutral writer or platform that said Ohio state DIDNT botch this? Heck, even Ohio state beat guys like Doug Lesmeris and Ari Wasserman believe it was a failure. Chris Carter is embarrassed. The unbiased mind looks at this says Ohio State priorities are 1. Money and winning 2. Everything else. The people working reallllly hard to defend Ohio state are just buckeye fans who love their team. Shocker I know you are trying hard to be the social warrior here but this story has been a take-down piece from the very beginning - Meyer and OSU are huge targets and the media wanted blood. And you've been solidly rooting for it with comments like "heavy lies the crown", well before any real investigation was done. I think there's more to the results of the investigation than what most are reading. What struck me as significant is that the report clearly called out that Urban & his wife had doubts about the veracity of Mrs. Smith's claims. There's more there but I think OSU was being respectful by stopping short of calling the woman a serial liar. I also think they probably stopped short of saying the police should have taken more actions after visiting the home so many times responding to calls... but without the police reports or actual charges filed, the University was supposed to fire him for allegations? Maybe. But again, not a reason to can Meyer. Yes this looks bad for OSU, of course, but find one reporter who thinks Meyer should've been fired for this? They kept this Zach Smith around too long, yes, but the investigation doesn't reveal a lot of wrong doing other than lying to the media and deleting some text messages... So do you think Meyer should have been fired for this? Larger NCAA penalties? Bowl sanctions? Scholarship reductions? Go ahead and make your case why